At The Same Time a Small Positive Black Initiative

Quote:by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“This Black Misleadership Class is bereft of any vision for national social transformation, or genuine Black self-determination, or a just world order.”

The Black Is Back Coalition, having last year produced a 19-point National Black Agenda for Self-Determination, is now exploring ways to field or support Black radical candidates willing to run for office on a self-determinationist platform. To kick the project off, the Coalition will hold a two-day Electoral Candidate School on April 8 and 9, in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event is also in sync with discussions taking place at the Black Left Unity organization. I’ll be one of the presenters at the Black Is Back electoral school, and will emphasize the importance of contesting the hegemonic influence of the Democrats -- a Wall Street party of austerity and war – in Black electoral politics. Blacks are the most left-leaning, anti-war ethnicity in the U.S., but you wouldn’t guess that by tallying the voting records of their representatives on Capitol Hill.

However, that’s not strange. U.S. duopoly party politics is in general disarray, a reflection of the crises of capitalism.

The Democrats point fingers a world away, at Moscow, as the source of instability in the U.S. political system. Donald Trump persists in claiming to fight for the little (white) guy, while gathering around him the richest Cabinet in the governmental history of the planet.